At a time when voter frustration with "politics as usual" promises
to be the hallmark of the 1990s, J. David Gillespie reminds us that
American receptiveness to candidates outside the Republican and
Democratic parties is not a phenomon unique to this decade. Rather,
alternative parties are an American tradition almost as old as the
nation itself. Gillespie's broad, interpretive study tells the
story of those Americans who have rejected traditional parties for
alternative political organizations and the issues that have
motivated them to do so. Gillespie examines the value of third
parties as well as the cultural and structural constraints that
relegate them to the periphery of American political life. From the
Antimasons of the 1820s to H. Ross Perot's grassroots network,
Gillespie details more than fifty political alternatives. He offers
vivid portraits of third-party leaders and supporters, including
Tom Watson, Robert LaFollette, Strom Thurmond, George Wallace,
Belva Lockwood, and Huey Long. Assessing their constituency and
impact, Gillespie concludes that third parties draw
disproportionately from the ranks of agitators and act as agents
for change, with many stances adopted--often in modified form--by
mainstream parties.
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